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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
867 
RYE FOR HAY. 
What time in tho Fall should rye he 
sown, and what is the proper amount of 
seed to be sown per acre? If cut green and 
cured for hay will it make good feed for 
horses and cattle, and what weight of feed 
should it turn off per acre? At what 
stage of growth should it be cut to make 
the best hay? Will it reach this stage up 
here in Canada in time to plow ground in 
the Spring for a crop of fodder corn or 
peas and oats to cut green? it. H. it. 
Ontario. 
Sow the rye as soon after September 
1 as possible. In New Jersey we can 
■sow up to September 15 with fair suc¬ 
cess. For hay we use five pecks per 
acre. It makes a coarse, hard hay. in¬ 
ferior to Timothy and not equal to 
wheat or oats cut green. We feed sev¬ 
eral tons of hay every year to horses. 
It will give two tons or more per acre 
—more than any other grain. We cut 
when the plants are in bloom—before 
they form seed. It ought to be possible 
to cut the rye, plow the stubble and 
plant fodder corn in your latitude, but 
it is doubtful if oats and peas would 
make a good growth after it. 
ARKANSAS HOG PASTURES. 
I have 140 head of hogs and a short 
corn crop, and want to know what is best 
to. do under following conditions : At pres¬ 
ent I have 40 acres of rich bottom land 
divided into four 10-acre pastures, culti¬ 
vated as follows: No. 1—Corn, live acres; 
Irish potatoes, five; August dug, all was 
Alfalfa sod. No. 2—Winter pasture in 
wheat until .Tune 15, now planted to corn. 
No. 3—The present pasture. Alfalfa and 
sorghum. No. 4—Cotton. For Winter pas¬ 
ture I have tried rye and wheat; they are 
good in this climate. What can I expect 
from Crimson and Bur clover, say five 
acres each, in No. 2, sown in September, 
and by what time can I turn hogs in? I 
shall sow wheat and rye in No. 4. In ad¬ 
dition to above I have 10 acres in an ad¬ 
joining 40 that I can plant to anything 
you can recommend. Van Huron Is in 
Crawford Co., on the western border of 
this State, and is now in the midst of a 
very severe drought, accompanied by hot 
winds, which is doing much more hurt 
than the drought. c. C. M. 
Van Buren, Ark. 
Crimson clover sown now will make 
you a fine pasture for the hogs after the 
first of March, but hardly much sooner. 
Bur clover will be still later. If the 
land is strong you can still sow Dwarf 
Essex rape, if well fertilized with a 
highly nitrogenous fertilizer, and can 
turn on that by Christmas. You can 
sow Yellow Stone turnips and have the 
hogs eat them along with the rape. You 
can sow three pounds of the rape mixed 
with 10 pounds of the Crimson clover, 
and can take the hogs off late in Winter 
and let the clover start up. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
INCUBATOR vs. HENS. 
To begin with, I have always been a 
very enthusiastic poultry woman, and 
for several years I have been more or 
less successful with poultry raising, set¬ 
ting my hens and raising the chicks in 
the old-fashioned way, but, as much as 
we admire Mrs. Biddy, we all know 
she will not take the responsibility of 
raising a family until she gets ready. 
Through the long Winter days we have 
planned ahead and thought what a lot of 
chickens we would raise, and then 
Spring comes with its numerous duties, 
and you wait and hope each day some 
of the hens will want to sit. Finally, 
after all danger of having any early- 
hatched chicks is past, all of the hens 
will suddenly become broody, and you 
will probably find yourself in the Fall 
with a few half-grown chickens that 
will not be ready to lay until the fol¬ 
lowing Spring, and a few different 
sized roosters that are hardly worth ship¬ 
ping. All this is changed with an incu¬ 
bator. It will sit whenever you wish, 
and as many times, and is never lousy; 
at least, this is my experience. I have 
found it easier to raise 300 with incu¬ 
bator and brooder than 75 with hens, 
besides the advantage of having them 
all, or nearly all. one size. I have sold 
broilers at Buffalo market in June at 28 
and 30 cents per pound, which I don’t 
think can be done with hens. 
In the Spring of 1907 my husband 
and I concluded to get an incubator, al¬ 
though with very little faith in the re¬ 
sult, as several of our acquaintances 
had tried incubators and did not seem 
to have much success with them. I set 
first hatch of 110 eggs February 22, and 
three weeks later took off 76 chicks; 
set it again and got 74 chicks. We 
raised nearly all, lost only five or six out 
of the 150. 
Then a neighbor came in and asked 
me what I would charge to set the ma¬ 
chine with 120 eggs for her. Until that 
time I never had the first thought of 
running an incubator for anyone else; 
in fact, I thought I was lucky if I 
could run it for myself, for until I got 
my first machine I did not know any¬ 
thing about an incubator. I thought it 
over and finally told her if she would 
furnish her eggs and oil 1 would run 
the machine for $1 per week, which 
would be $3 ; then other people heard I 
would hatch and came wanting work 
done, until we got two more machines. 
Of course, by that time the season was 
passing, but after all we hatched 13 
hatches. In Winter of 1908 I was ill 
from January until first of May, so did 
not set as many, only made nine hatches, 
and this year up to May 12 we set 12 
hatches. 
Our incubators are all hot water ma¬ 
chines, all the same make, and very sim¬ 
ple to run and understand. My friends 
all say I have such good luck, but I 
think it is just the care I give them that 
accounts for the good hatches. Below I 
give number of chicks I have secured 
from eggs set. I think if I saved my 
own eggs I could do even bettter, so in 
looking this over you must remember 
that the eggs are bought from all over, 
sometimes bought at the stores, and I 
have had brought to me old eggs, and 
almost all kinds mixed, so taking it all 
together, I think I have had very good 
hatches. 
I would like to refer to the numerous 
things that are talked and written about 
women making money at home. Of 
course, we don't all agree upon the sub¬ 
ject; still, I don't think many men will 
deny, if questioned, that their wives 
make their ^liare of money at home. 
Still, we all at times have the desire to 
branch out and see if we cannot add a 
little more to the general fund, and I 
think from my own experience that run¬ 
ning incubators is the ideal work, for it 
is very little exertion, and it can all be 
carried on in the house. I have run 
three in my sitting room for three 
months. I will now give results of first 
year’s hatching, all supposed to be 120 
eggs, but nearly always less on account 
of eggs being broken. 
1907. 
1st. 76; 2d. 74; 3d, 82; 4th, 62; 5th, 
93; 6th, SI: 7th, 52; 8th. 83; 9th, 75, 
10th, 05; 11th, 77; 12th, 81; 13th, 84. 
1908. 
1st, 42; 
2d. 
. 72: 
: 3d, 91 : 
4 th, 
68: 
5th, 
82; 6th, 81 
; 7 
th, 6 
1 ; 8th, 54 
; 9th 
, 63. 
Part 
of 1909. 
1 st, 75 ; 
2d 
. 89: 
; dd, 85 ;. 
4th, 
77; 
5th, 
53 ; 6th, 9! 
> , 
“ J 
7th, 
81. 
MRS. E. C. MOULTON. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
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We have a horse that has a cough. If 
he is hitched in a light rig he docs not 
cough much, but \vheu he has to pull a 
heavy load he coughs and gets so out of 
breath that he cannot pull, and seems 
just like a person who has asthma. Is 
there any remedy? a. s. 
Work him in a breast collar In prefer¬ 
ence to a neck collar, which seems to 
choke him down when he goes to pull a 
heavy load. Also put an overhead check 
on harness to keep his head from getting 
down low when pulling. We suspect that 
the throat is the seat of the trouble and 
that the throat lash is short and thick, or 
the glands of the neck enlarged, so that 
1 here is interference with normal breath¬ 
ing when the horse pulls. Medicine may 
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times daily, when aggravated. If there is 
any passing of gas' from rectum at time of 
coughing, a symptom which indicates 
•‘heaves.” the trouble is located in the 
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